* 10 best ghost story in Wales
Tales of the Old Prophet
One of Wales' earliest collectors of ghost stories, the Rev Edmund Jones, known as The Old Prophet.
Jones, who lived at the Tranch in Torfaen, published an extraordinary little book in 1780 called Apparitions of Spirits. It's stuffed full of weirdness.
Not content with drab fare like white ladies or nuns and monks, Jones's ghosts are the most bizarre on record - giant figures, misshapen things "without regular members", apparitions which rolled like a ball or over-and-over like a Catherine wheel, spectres with grotesquely long tongues and spirits which took the form of hounds or pigs or great sheets of fire.
And yet in many cases these stories are the most carefully authenticated.
Jones is able to tell us who saw the ghost and precisely when and where. Many were told to him first-hand and indeed, uniquely among early collectors of ghost stories, he also saw ghosts himself.
One of Wales' earliest collectors of ghost stories, the Rev Edmund Jones, known as The Old Prophet.
Jones, who lived at the Tranch in Torfaen, published an extraordinary little book in 1780 called Apparitions of Spirits. It's stuffed full of weirdness.
Not content with drab fare like white ladies or nuns and monks, Jones's ghosts are the most bizarre on record - giant figures, misshapen things "without regular members", apparitions which rolled like a ball or over-and-over like a Catherine wheel, spectres with grotesquely long tongues and spirits which took the form of hounds or pigs or great sheets of fire.
And yet in many cases these stories are the most carefully authenticated.
Jones is able to tell us who saw the ghost and precisely when and where. Many were told to him first-hand and indeed, uniquely among early collectors of ghost stories, he also saw ghosts himself.
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